Mohamed Atta

Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta (1 September 1968-11 September 2001) was a member of Al-Qaeda from Egypt. Atta was responsible for the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 11 alongside Abdulaziz al-Omari and was killed when he flew the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in the 9/11 attack.

Biography
Muhammad Muhammad al-Amir Awad as-Sayid Ata was born on 1 September 1968 in Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate in Egypt. He was a Qutbi Muslim, believing in the theory of offensive jihad. In 1978 he moved to the Abdeen section of Cairo with his family and he attended Cairo University in 1990, and he learned English at the American University in Cairo. Atta later moved to Hamburg, Germany and studied at the Technical University of Hamburg and became involved with the al-Qutb Mosque. Atta was also involved with the Hamburg Cell of al-Qaeda, consisting of Marwan al-Shehhi, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and Ziad Jarrah. They formed the cell and he later headed to Afghanistan in 1999 and 2000, where Atta was trained in combat. In November 2000, he and Marwan al-Shehhi studied at flight school in Venice, Florida, recruited by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for the "planes operation" in the United States. He traveled to Prince George's County, Maryland in September 2001 and met up with Hani Hanjour, and he met up with Abdulaziz al-Omari in Portland, Maine on 10 September. After spending time at a Comfort Inn, the two traveled on Colgan Air to Boston, Massachusetts. There, they boarded American Airlines Flight 11 and hijacked the flight fifteen minutes into its takeoff. At 8:46 AM on 11 September 2001, Atta and the terrorists flew the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City, causing a huge explosion. This was only the first of four 9/11 attacks in the USA.